Discussions around 5G tend to focus on radio technologies and frequency bands. As with any innovation, the technical aspects are important, but they are a means, not an end. Furthermore, the deployment of 5G will require a tremendous expenditure of time and money. Why will operators invest their...

Microsegmentation allows a flexible and optimized way of providing security services to the places where traditional security technologies can’t reach or don’t scale. Microsegmentation can be equally applied to Virtual as well as Bare Metal workloads or Overlay / Underlay Networks.

Everyone who needed a SIM is more or less having it, and in order to grow further, OpCos need to transform themselves from being just a Communication Service Provider (CSP) to a Platform Provider, offering any application to run on one of their network slices, accessible from any device, and from...

Monitoring has been always like the step child with the networking team; sometimes it’s a long battle to figure out which team will be responsible for funding a network monitoring initiative; security, business or networking. If we somehow figure out the funding part, the next question is, do we...

The Public Services Network (PSN) provides UK Public Sector organisations with a standardised ICT environment – a single assured network and a set of network services (voice, unified communications and video) from accredited providers via a simplified procurement process

Many of the predictions included technologies that are predicated on a move to software, open systems and an overhaul of the access network. These are big changes, and telcos don’t make big changes quickly. Will they take place next year? I believe that the winning operators will need to drive to...

From the 2012s onwards, BGP has evolved significantly and became the most powerful network protocol and the one that made the next generation Software Defined Networks (SDN) move from a networkers dream to a reality. You have doubts? Wasn't the whole software revolution meant to abolish the reign...